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AMERICAN IilSTOlllCA:L ' ASSOCIATION.
cn.lculations &c &c of everj sort·nnd' kina and beljeve ine ever·ri10st faithfnll;v )'ours 'A. G. 'v\ 7,\VI~LL [Addressed] Stei)he·n F Austin Esq.'to th~ c·a.re of J. I-I. Hawkins Esq. '[New] Orleans pr·Mariu • . Forwarded by·yom· most obt servt Liverpoo1'27' J an-1823' R. McNEEi. I nm ut·present at my fathers·but shail return to London·in a ver:y few days [more] ·. .-. [torn] our mines and seen the new Steam En- gines ·very much ·im,7n•Mied'--we have one hea1; of a. 400 ho1·se power
' RoBER'r ANDRE\Y~ ,'l'O ;r. E. )3. Au~TIN
Saltillo J a.ny 25 th /23 •
DEAR JAMES I this' mintit rec 4 : fours· of the: 5 th In_st'. •and ·a~ happy to hear that you are-not" sin consuelo ":-l live :it present on hope altogether, there being no call ·for ·a :physician;· upon the' aggregate of good md bad times, J :beai·ly'live decently.i I ·should· certainly have left' .his place··before' this, h'ad it' not been that I ··have continually ex-· pected the· arrival of-·your B1:other since the 20 th of this month, according to bis fotter of the·pt·Jnst. saying that he would certainly leave :Mexico on·the· 6t 11 _:__J this:rnorniug recd \rnother from him dtd. the 15 th in which he ·says "I 'Will leave here in company with the Capt. Genl. Busta.manta who'calculates·to start in 8·days for Saltillo, but if he should not· go I will set out in that time "..:_The collonization Law passed and was published on the 4 Inst'.. which·no doubt you will' $P,e before you· see this-'-he says in his ietter that the· ·Junta is now debating the articles!of·a ·constitution ·which is compleat1y demon: strative of all tl1e Ignorance Inability·and Stupidity of the Nation, and will probabilly·do ·more harm than good to the Emperial cn:use, that the House ;is much··divided~ .th!it ·-there ihas been mttch pithy' &peaking on the subject,··and, a ·pfosp·ect ·of many ·of the member~ holding an!honorable pole for the Oa1·cel.•.r he ' also says" The Ca'n~ non and.·Bells-this ·moment ·announce the ·ackno'wledgemeilt of the independence' of the ·Empire of' :Mexico ·by ·Peru ..and 'Chili "....:...I suppose you have heatd bythistiine of the'ma:lcontents·c:rf Vira Cruz, it ·is sa.id· by some that;-thEW are !depreciating·, ·and by othei·s that they increase ' every.day, that the·:influence' of ·the 'two ·Gen ls:. 'who left Mexico the other day for- the other party, is so g1:eat, among 'the troops-that it will have a·'great afl;ect~ 1 Wis-also whispereci·that the Emperial·Troops attacked •Vira 1 Gruz; and were defeated with con- siderable -losses-the act instituting·paper money on ·so ·,,ery weak a -plan .is much clispised -by the people 'big •fools as they are;··this will also have its weight, and the Constitution coming out together
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